4702 Shorecrest Drive
email:csaper@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
Orlando FL 32817-1239 telephone:
407-671-0606
Education
1990 Ph.D., English (Digital
Rhetoric), Univ. of Florida (Professor Greg Ulmer, dissertation committee
director).
Faculty
Appointments
2002-
Professor, Texts & Technology Doctoral
Program, Department of English, University of Central
Florida.
2002-4 Director, Texts & Technology
Doctoral Program, Department of English, University of Central Florida.
2001 Associate Professor, Department of
Multimedia, University of the
Arts [UArts], Philadelphia.
1998 Assistant Professor and Director of the New
Media Center,
Dept. of Multimedia, UArts.
1991 Assistant Professor, Department of
English, University of
Pennsylvania with an associated appointment in Theory
& Comp. Lit. starting in 1993.
1990 Visiting
Lecturer, Comparative
Literature, Indiana Univ.
Publications
Scholarly Books, Critical Editions, & Edited Volumes
Networked Art. University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Artificial Mythologies: A Guide to Cultural Invention. University
of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Readies For Bob Brown’s Machine. 1931. Rice University Press,
2010(forthcoming).
Gems by Bob Brown. 1931. Ed. & Intro. Rice University Press,
2010(forthcoming).
Words by Bob Brown. 1931. Ed. & Intro. Rice University Press,
2010(forthcoming).
Mr. Reading Machine, a biography of Bob Brown [in process]
The Reading Drive [in process]
Drifts, a special issue of Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging
Knowledge, 13 (Fall 2006). http://www.rhizomes.net/issue13/index.html
Imaging Place, a special issue of Textual Studies Canada, Lead Co-editor
with J.C. Freeman & W. Garrett-Petts (October 2008). Another edition Imaging Place (electronically), a
special issue of Rhizomes, Lead
Co-editor (November 2008).
Interactive Style, special issue of Style,
33.2 (2001). As an introduction to the emerging field of
new media studies and digital rhetoric, the essays in this issue chart the
changes underway in the reception of new media and interactive narrative.
Instant Theory:
Making Thinking Popular, special issue of Visible
Language, 22: 4 (1988).
Articles,
Essays, Introductions, & Chapters, linked here to copies of the
publications at http://www.readies.org/Craig_Saper_CV/
“Jouissance d’ennui,” specs, vol.1. Winter Park: Rollins, 2008.
"A Postcard to
Freud Returned: The Unconscious Structured like a Holiday?
introduction to A Disturbance of Memory,
volume II in the series Freud on Holiday by Sharon Kivland published by
INFORMATION AS MATERIAL, and Cube Editions, Athens; introduction by Craig
Saper. Including a Greek translation (2008).
"Toward A Visceral Scholarship Online:
Folkvine.org and Hypermedia Ethnography," Journal
of E-Media Studies (Spring 2008).
"The
Florida School’s Legacy, or The Devil’s Millhopper Joke Revisited”
in New Media/New Methods: The Academic
Turn from Literacy to Electracy (West Lafayette, IN: Parlor
Press, 2008).
"GIS Databases in
Digital Humanities," Imaging Place, special issue Textual Studies Canadian (October 2008;
forthcoming). Also published as “Imaging Place:
GIS Databases in Digital Humanities," (enhanced electronic
version with sound, video, and hot-links) Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 15 (December 2008;
forthcoming).
"Folkvine.org as
a Model of Virtual Tourism", in "Digital Matter and
Intangible Heritage," a special issue of the International Journal of Digital Cultural Heritage and E-Tourism,
Vol. _, No. _(Fall 2008; forthcoming).
"Applicants and
Captions: A Surrealist (ethnography of) academia?" Surrealist Games. (Fall 2009,
forthcoming).
"The Two Ulmers
in e-Media Studies: Vehicle and Driver," The
Illogic of Sense: The Gregory Ulmer
Remix,
editors, Darren Tofts and Lisa Gye (Denver: Alt-X, 2007). Also published in the
in
the Electropoetics Thread of Electronic Book Review.
"Editorial
Introduction," with Ellen Berry, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 13 (Winter/Spring
2007). Special issue on Drifts.
"Outside In:
Schooling, Kit-Bashing, Quilting, & Clowning Around Online,” Hyperrhiz: New Media
Cultures, 2. video-essay (Winter 2007).
"Blogademia,"
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary
Culture 5.4 (Winter 2006).
"Interface to Hyperface:
Odd Links and Cruel Design,” Rhizomes:
Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 11/12 (Summer/Fall 2006).
"The Blog Report:
Lack of Power in New Orleans," Rhizomes, 11/12 (Summer/Fall 2006).
"Networked
Psychoanalysis: A Dialogue with Anna Freud Banana," in At A Distance: Precursors to Art and
Activism on the Internet (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005; substantially
revised paperback edition, 2006).
"The Blog Report:
Technologies of Forgetting," Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 10 (2005).
"The Internet’s
Underware” Performance
Research, 9 (1), 2004/2005: 38-42.
"The Blog Report:
Crisis and Transition,” Rhizomes:
Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, issue 9 (December 2004/appeared
January 2005).
"Questions
Concerning Technology: Kit-Bashing,” CultureWork: A Periodic Broadside
for Arts and Culture Workers 9 (2), October 2004.
"Epistemologies
of Doing: From Media Studies to Media Making,” Journal of Performance/Texts/Technology, issue 1 (March-April
2004).
"Of
Spectacularization: Writing New Media Theory,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, 4, 2 (April 2003).
"Networked
Economies: Six Degrees of Boggs,” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, issue 5 (December
2002).
"Inventing the
Cinema at the Black Maria,” catalogue essay, Black Maria Film &
Video Festival (20th anniversary), 2001, pp. 1-9.
"The Political
Economy of the Allen Smithee Case,” in The Allen Smithee Case, ed. Stephen Hock & Jeremy Braddock (The
University of Minnesota Press, 2001), 29-50.
"Comparative
Literature,” encyclopedia entry, in Routledge’s Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, ed. V. Taylor (2001), 59-63.
"The Spectator,”
encyclopedia entry, Oxford UP’s Companion
to the Body (2001).
"Kollaborateure: Soziopoetik
Seit Den Funfziger Jahren,” catalogue essay for an exhibit at the
Vienna Kunsthalle, October 1999, 62-69.
"Spinography:
From Tom Edison’s Lightbulb to Walter Benjamin’s Alarm Clock,” Strategies Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall 1999),
13-24.
"Introduction: Interactive Style,”
Style, 33.2 (Winter 1999), 180-183.
"Fluxus As A
Laboratory,” in The Fluxus
Reader, ed. Ken Friedman (London: Academy Press, 1998), 136-154.
"Networking
Artists & Poets,” curator’s catalogue essay for “Networking
Artists & Poets: Assemblings from The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive,”
Rosenwald Gallery, University of Pennsylvania Library (April 17 through June
27, 1997), including an annotated exhibition checklist, pp. 1-30.
"Intimate
Bureaucracies & Infrastructuralism: A Networked Introduction to Assemblings,”
PMC: Postmodern Culture, volume 7, number 3, special issue edited by
Stuart Maulthrop (The Johns Hopkins University Press, May 1997), no page
numbers.
"Under
Cancellation: The Future Tone of Visual Poetry,” in Experimental-Visual-Concrete: Avant-Garde
Poetry since the 1960s, ed. K. David Jackson, Eric Vos, and Johanna Drucker
(Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 309-316.
"Überfall: Mugshots in the
Autobiographical,” Quiver
12 (Winter 1995), photography exhibit catalogue, 1-10.
"Scandalography:
From Fatty’s Demise to Lacan’s Rise,” Lusitania (Winter 1993): pp. 87-100.
"A Nervous
Theory: The Troubling Gaze of Psychoanalysis in Media Studies” diacritics (Summer 1992): pp.
33-52.
"Fluxacademy: From Intermedia
to Interactive Education,” Visible
Language, vol. 26, number 1/2 (Winter/Spring 1992): pp. 79-96.
"Electronic Media
Studies,” SubStance
(December 1992): pp. 114-134.
"Learning From
Being Lost,” Journal of Urban
and Cultural Studies, volume 1, number 2 (Fall 1990): pp. 67-86.
"Using an Art
Exhibit to Teach Cultural Studies and Literary Theory,” The Latin Americanist, volume 25, number
2 (May 1990): pp. 8-10.
"The Music of
Visual Poetry and Architecture,” (on Bernard Tschumi's work) Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the
Fine Arts, volume 1 (Spring 1989): pp. 155-170.
"How to Read A
Concrete Poem,” catalog essay for Brazilian Concrete & Visual Poetry from The Ruth & Marvin
Sackner Archive (University of Florida, March, 1989).
"Instant Theory:
Making Thinking Popular,” Visible
Language, volume 22, number 4 (Spring 1989): pp. 371-398.
http://www.readies.org/Craig_Saper_CV/visiblelanguage.pdf
Experimental Publications
On Being Read (Madison, Wisconsin:
Moon(kosh) Press, 1985). Distributed through Printed Matter, NYC. In the permanent “artist’s book”
collection of the Museum Of Modern Art, NYC.
Raw Material (Orlando, Florida: SKS Press).
In the collection of the Center of Book Arts, New York City. Also exhibited at the
Center for Book Arts in 2008.
Digital Media Projects
"Outside In:
Schooling, Kit-Bashing, Quilting, & Clowning Around Online,”
video-essay (designed with Lynn Tomlinson), originally screened in New York
City at the School of Visual Arts Eighteenth Annual National Conference on
Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists.
"Reading Machines,"
Project to simulate the readies for Bob Brown's reading machine from 1929.[works
on Windows/Firefox]
Folkvine.org. The ultimate goal of
our work is to change the way we think about scholarship. We design our websites
to look, feel, and sound like an analogy for each artist's aesthetic
sensibility. We seek to present models for online scholarship, ethnographic
online design, and the pleasures of the web. Florida Humanities Council's
Review:
"Overall, Fokvine.org is a web site designed to educate,
entertain, and inspire. It does all these things masterfully. The level of
creativity and effective integration of humanities content and art in an
imaginative way is without par. . . . one of the most
interesting, imaginative, creative, and content-rich humanities projects I've
ever seen. It's been my pleasure and honor to be on the outside looking in. ... I believe Folkvine.org
represents one of the most important and path-breaking projects ever funded by
the Florida Humanities Council. It is my strong desire to see Folkvine.org grow
and flourish.”
Grants, Honors, and Awards
2007-08 College of Arts and Humanities Award.
$18,582 for Using Digital Mapping in the Arts and Humanities. PI, Humanities
Research Category.
2007 Dorothy Howard
Award, 2nd Place to folkvine.org, for Best Educational Program on
Folk Life.
2007 College
of Arts and Humanities Award. $29, 575 for National Folkvine. PI. 2007. Funded.
Humanities Research Category.
2006 Florida
Humanities Council Grant, $25,400 for Folkvine.org, Phase III, 2006-2007. Co-PI
with Professor Kristen Congdon and Natalie Underberg. Funded.
2005 Nomination, Helen and Martin Schwartz
Prize for Public Humanities Programs in the category of Council Grant-Making,
for Folkvine.org project, 2005.
2004-5 Florida Humanities Council Grant, $25,400 for
Folkvine.org, Phase II, 2005. Co-PI with Professor Kristen Congdon.
2004 Fellowship, $1,000, FCTL, Summer Institute,
UCF.
2003-4 Florida Humanities Council Grant, $13,000 for Florida’s
Cultural Story: Interactive Website and Public Talks Project, 2003-2004. Co-PI with Professor Kristen Congdon.
2003-4 Grant, $35,000, “Beyond VR:
Simulating Identities,” “Where Science Meets Fiction Series” Workshop
Dec.
4-6, 2003. PEO-StrI, DOD.
2003 Grant, $1,000,
Conference planning, “Electronic Dissertation,” Graduate Studies, UCF.
2000 Faculty Development Grant for
publication of images related to Networked
Art, $1,000, University of the Arts.
1998 Course Development Grant (new film course),
$2,000. University of the Arts.
1997 Endowment, $800,000, to start a film
program and endow a Chair in film studies. Worked with development, faculty,
and students to encourage the donor to fund this particular program.
1996 Development Grant, 21st
Century Initiative, University of Pennsylvania.
1995 Grant, $3,000, Center for Community
Partnership, University of Pennsylvania.
1995 Summer Research Grant,
$5,000, Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania.
1994 Grant, $24,000, PEW Charitable Trust
Foundation via University of Pennsylvania.
1994 Grant, $3,000, Center for Community
Partnership, University of Pennsylvania.
1993 Summer Research Grant, $5,000,
Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania.
2005- Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures,
Media Editor.
Hyperrhiz provides a forum for the
publication of innovative new media projects.
2005-
Journal of E-Media Studies, Editorial
Board.
JoEM, a blind peer-reviewed, on-line interdisciplinary journal
dedicated to the scholarly study of the history and theory of electronic media.
2004- Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging
Knowledge, Reviews Editor. Reviews may be of websites, new technologies, events,
installations, and conferences as well as scholarly books.
2002-
Rhizomes: Cultural
Studies in Emerging Knowledge, a peer-reviewed
journal, promotes experimental work located outside current disciplines.
Editorial Board.
1997-2001
Other Voices: The (e)Journal of
Cultural Criticism, Editorial Advisory Board. Submissions that pass an initial editorial
inspection are subject to strict lateral peer-review.
1995-1997
Journal for the Psychoanalysis
of Culture, Film Committee. JPCS is the official publication of the Association for the
Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society, an international and interdisciplinary
organization.
1987-1989
Newsletter of the Freudian
Field, Associate Editor. NFF
was the major journal of Lacanian psychoanalytic studies in the US. The journal
published the first works in English by Slavoj Zizek and others.
1985-1986 The
Velvet Light Trap, Assistant Editor.
Review
Essays
High Techne: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to
the Posthuman, R.
L. Rutsky, in Symploke 10.1-2 (2002)
229-231.
Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology, Patricia Ticineto Clough, in Anthropology and Humanism (Summer 2001).
“Dieter Roth: Printed Pressed
Bound, 1949-1979,” exhibit review for Art
Journal (Spring 2000).
Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Cinema in Los Angeles, Hamid Naficy, in SubStance 78 (1995): pp. 141-144.
Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais, Leo Bersani & Ulysses
Dutoit, in MFS 40/2 (Winter 1995):
pp. 441-443.
Ecstasies of Roland Barthes, Mary Bittner Wiseman, in SubStance, number 68 (Spring 1992): pp. 147-149.
The Telephone Book, Avital Ronell, in
SubStance , number 64 (Spring 1991): pp. 134-136.
In the Beginning
was Love: Psychoanalysis and Faith , Julia Kristeva, in Newsletter of the Freudian Field, volume 2, number 1 (Spring 1988):
pp. 47-49.
The Acoustic
Mirror: Psychoanalysis and Feminist Film Theory, Kaja Silverman, in Newsletter of the Freudian Field, volume
2, number 1 (Spring 1988): pp. 47-49.
Freud’s
Discovery of Psychoanalysis: The Politics of Hysteria, William McGrath in Newsletter of the Freudian Field, volume
2, number 1 (Spring 1988): p. 52.
Freud and Oedipus, Peter Rudnytsky, in Newsletter of the Freudian Field, volume
2, number 1 (Spring 1988): pp. 52-53.
Freud, Proust,
and Lacan: Theory as Fiction, Malcolm Bowie, in Newsletter of the Freudian Field, volume 2, number 1 (Spring 1988):
pp. 53-54.
“Lacan, Discourse, and Politics,”
conference proceedings, Kent State, May 28-29, 1989, in Newsletter of the Freudian Field, volume 2, number 2 (Fall 1988):
pp. 63-64.
The Purloined
Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading, John Muller and William
Richardson, Editors, in Newsletter of the
Freudian Field, volume 2, number 2 (Fall 1988): pp. 54-55.
"Event is an Event is an
Event (Instructions, Memorials, and Sociopoetic Systems)," Event
Symposium, Center for Design Research, Denmark's Design School, May 2007.
"Folkvine," Community
University Research Alliance, Quality of Life in Small Cities, Kamloops,
British Columbia, Canada, September 2007.
"Vernacular Spaces as
Research Strategy," Imaging Place Conference, February 2007.
"Little Miss Sunshine
State: Introduction to the Keynote Address," Imaging Place Conference,
February 2007.
"Imaging Place and
Choragraphy," Imaging Place Conference, Introductory and Welcoming
Remarks, February 2007.
"A Toomler's Toast to Eileen Brautman's Katubot: How We Designed The
Website""
Folkvine Event Premiering A Website on Brautman's art as a Katubah-maker, David
Posniak Jewish Community Center, February 2007.
"Erotic TV Book Machine of
1929," video-essay for Modernist studies Association, October 2006.
"The Digital Quilt Project
as a Model for Tactile Scholarship," Orange County History Center,
Orlando, March 3, 2006.
"Folkvine.org: Art of/through Interface.” College Art
Association, Boston, February 2006.
"Reading for Pleasure,” Cognitive
Science Colloquim, UCF, February 2004.
"Introduction: Simulated Identities,” Beyond
VR: Simulated Identities conference/workshop, UCF, December 2003.
"Introduction: Eduardo Kac,” Beyond VR:
Simulated Identities conference/workshop, UCF, December 2003.
"Concluding
Remarks and Summary,” “Introduction:
Simulated Identities,” Beyond VR: Simulated Identities conference/workshop,
UCF, December 2003.
"Networked Art and International Channeling: Lettrist Poems,”
College Art Association, Philadelphia, February 2002.
"The
Internet’s Underwear: The Work [and Play] of Craft in the Age of Electronic
Distribution,” a dialogue in collaboration with Laura Trippi, College Art Association,
Philadelphia, February 2002.
"Networked
Economies: The Case of Boggs’ Bills,” Modern Language Association, New Orleans,
December 2001.
"Something
Else Politics: How to Read Fluxus Poetry,” Invited Featured Speaker, The
Writers’ House, University of Pennsylvania, October 2001.
"Auteurism, Ghostwriting, Pseudonyms, and Fronts: The Politics of
the Alan Smithee Case,” featured speaker at the conference on “Specters of
Legitimation: Alan Smithee as Auteur,” Penn, September, 1997.
"Visual
Poetry in Canada,” featured speaker at “EyeRhymes,” an international
conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, June, 1997.
"Dick
Higgins and Visual Poetry in the United States,” lecture at The Writers’ House,
University of Pennsylvania, April, 1997.
"Introduction to the Opening of the Networking Artists &
Poets,” Van Pelt Library, Penn, April, ‘97.
"The
Way Things Go,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, March, 1997.
"Assemblings,”
History of the Book seminar, University of Pennsylvania, February, 1997.
"Anxiety
of Influence in Avant-Garde Circles?” IALP, Villanova University, May 1995.
"Codes
of Visual Poetry,” featured speaker, The End of Language, Yale University,
April 1995.
"Intimate
Bureaucracies,” International Conference on Performance Studies, NYU, March
1995.
"Detouring
Orientalism: Toward a Barthesian Multi-Culturalism,” After Barthes, Penn, April
1994.
"Hot
for Teacher: Roland Barthes as the Professor of Desire in the Context of the
Debates Surrounding Political Correctness,” Featured Speaker, Symposium on
Mainstreaming 'Censorship':
Academia, Sexuality, and the Celebrity System, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst, April 1994.
"Artisanal
Invention in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Invited Guest Lecturer,
Mellon Seminar in Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, February
1994.
"Who
Framed Desire? The Style of Contemporary Film Theory," Invited Guest
Lecturer, School of Arts and Sciences, University of California—Riverside,
February 1994.
"Evidence
or Allegory: Representations of the Holocaust," Invited Guest Lecturer,
School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, February 1994.
"Tausk’s
‘Influencing Machine,’" Invited Guest Lecturer, Seminar on Psychoanalytic
Theories of Representation, California Institute of the Arts, February 1994.
"Transitional
Texts: From Concrete Poetry to CD-ROMS," Materiality of Book Workshop,
Penn, Oct. ‘93.
"Film
Theory Darkly," Cultural Studies Faculty Seminar, University of
Pennsylvania, April 1993.
"Projecting
A Map of Media Studies," Conference on Deleuze and Guattari, March, Duke
University, 1993.
"Intermedia,"
Graduate Group, Art History, Penn, Feb., 1993.
Seminar
in "Masters in Liberal Studies Program", Visiting Speaker for the
University of Pennsylvania, Spring, 1993.
"Scandal
and Hype as Media," Ethno-History Workshop, University of Pennsylvania,
December 1992.
"Walter
Benjamin in the Age of Elvis," Symposium on Walter Benjamin, Miami U.,
Miami, OH, April ‘92.
"The
Most Memorable Television Evening Ever," Midwestern MLA, Chicago, November
1991.
"Violence in the Movies,"
Philadelphia Drama Guild, Oct. 1991.
"Drive-Through
History: Roland Barthes and The 1964 World's Fair," The Eleventh Annual
Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of
Cincinnati, May 1991.
"Trinh
T. Minh-ha's Reassemblage," The
Eighth Annual Festival of Ethnomusicological Film, Indiana University, March
1991.
"Writing
with Pictures: Using Semiotic Poetry as a Model," Modern Language
Association, Washington, D.C., December 1989.
"A
Politics of Mourning," Lacan, Discourse, and Politics, Kent State
University, May 1989.
"The
Representation of Male Desire in Psychoanalytic Feminist Film Theory,"
Feminism and Representation, Rhode Island College, April 1989.
"Concrete
Theory," Advanced Composition Section, SAMLA, Annual Convention,
Washington, D.C., November 1988.
"Poststructuralist
Writing Strategies," International Conference on Literacy, San Francisco,
June 1988.
"Lacan's
Theory of the Gaze," Lacan, Language, and Literature, Kent State
University, May 1988.
"Words
& Images," 13th Annual Conference on Intertextuality: Film
& Literature, Florida State University, January 1988.
"Surrealist
Humor and Pedagogy: Buñuel's Las Hurdes,"
World Humor and Irony Membership, Arizona State University, April 1987.
"Dudley
Andrew's Theory of Interpretation: A Phenomenology of Distanciation,"
Society for Cinema Studies, Annual Convention, New Orleans, May 1986.
PhD Dissertations Supervised Since 2005 (Texts and
Technology)
Dr. Tammy Powley, "Altered Book Art and
Digital Rhetoric: The Creation of Digitally Altered E-Space." (December
2006). Currently Assistant Prof. at Indian River College, Florida.
Dr. Michelle Ferrier, "Patchwork
Culture: Quilt Tactics and Digitextuality" (May 2007). Her research includes a patent application
for the interface she designed for the dissertation. Currently Associate Prof.
at Elon University, North Carolina.
Elizabeth Weaver, "Deformation Rhetoric: An
Approach to Curriculum"[Comprehensive Exams stage, expected completion 2010]
Edward Scott, "The Shape of
Cross-Cultural Design in Public Health Informatics,"[ABD; expected completion spring
2009].
Warren Jones, "Inverse Intuition Forums for the Digital Rhetoric
and Composition Classroom," [ABD, expected completion 2010]
Donald Merritt, "Interactive
theatre, virtual worlds and the evolving semiotics of performance," [finishing course work,
expected completion 2011]
Service and Administrative Experience
2008 Promotion
Committee, Department of Theater [they did not have enough full Professors in
their own department to serve on a promotion to full committee]
2008 Texts
and Technology, Standing Committee
2008 Tenure
and Promotion Committee, Department of English
2008-2009 Texts and Technology, Recruitment
Committee
2008-2010 Department's Governing Council
Committee
2007-2008 Texts and Technology, Standing
Committee
2007-2008 Humanities Advisor, ChinaVine.org
Project
2007-2008 Director, National Folkvine Project
2007-2008 Board of Advisors, Humanities
Center and Digital Research Initiative
2007-2008
Department of English, Graduate Studies Committee
2006-2007 Department of English, Professional
Development Committee (CPE and P&T sub-committee)
2006-2007 Department of English, Texts and
Technology Committee
2006-2007 Humanities Center Planning Group,
College of A&H, UCF
2007 Miami
Florida Premiere of Brautman's website and celebration. Discussion of humanities
concepts and public humanities issues.
2006.
College
of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee.
2006-7 Worked on
the Community Mosaic Project at Hanibal Square Winter Park. Please see the
progress of the work (funded by the Golden Rule Foundation).
http://communitymosaic.blogspot.com
2006 Early
literacy volunteer at Dommerich Elementary School. Also, gave a guest lecture.
2006 Folkvine.
Tampa Florida Premiere of Taft Richardson website and celebration. Discussion
of humanities concepts and public humanities issues.
2006 Folkvine.
Puerto-Rican Community Center, Orlando, Florida Premiere of Lilly's website and
celebration. Discussion of humanities concepts and public humanities issues.
2006 Folkvine,
Naples Florida Premiere of Retablos website and celebration. Discussion of
humanities concepts and public humanities issues.
2005 Examination
Preparation Committee, Required Reading Lists, T&T, UCF
2005 Faculty
Search Committee, Renaissance and Early Modern, UCF
2005 College
of Arts and Sciences, Promotion & Tenure Committee, University of Central
Florida.
2005 Texts
and Technology (T&T) standing committee.
2004 College
of Arts and Sciences, Promotion & Tenure Committee, University of Central
Florida.
2003-4 Sponsored
Research Faculty Awards Committee, University of Central Florida.
2003-4 Provost’s
Graduate Fellowships Committee, University of Central Florida.
2003-4 Revised
curriculum & structure, PhD Program, Texts & Technology, University of
Central Florida.
2003-5 Coordinator,
Writing for Media Concentration for Digital Media majors.
2003 Faculty
Search Committee, Film Department, University of Central Florida.
2002-3 Implemented
Cross Listing, Digital Media Course, University of Central Florida.
2002-3 Proposed
and Implemented Faculty Swap, Film & Eng., University of Central Florida.
2002-3 Developed
and Implemented New Marketing Plan, Texts & Technology, University of
Central Florida.
2002-3 Supervising
and Coordinating New e-brochure, Texts & Technology, University of Central
Florida.
2002-3 Supervising
and Coordinating New Brochure, Texts & Technology, University of Central
Florida.
2002-3 Supervising
and Coordinating New Website, Texts & Technology, University of Central
Florida.
2002-3 Review
of Benchmark Schools and New List Proposed for Texts & Technology PhD
Program, University of Central Florida.
2002- Supervisor,
Graduate Research Assistants, Texts & Technology, University of Central
Florida.
2002 Dynamic
Media Building Design Consultant, University of Central Florida.
2002 Faculty
Search Committee, Renaissance Literature, University of Central Florida.
2002-3 Electronic
Dissertation/Thesis Committee, University of Central Florida.
2002- Program
Coordinator, Texts and Technology PhD Program, University of Central Florida.
2001 Multimedia
student group and Town Meetings, Faculty Advisor, University of the Arts.
2001 Faculty Search
Committee, Multimedia Department, University of the Arts.
2001 College of
Media and Comm., Dean Search Committee, University of the Arts.
2001-2 Comm. Department’s Academic
Development Committee.
Developed
curriculum for a new major, University of the Arts.
2000-1 M. F. A. committee, Carrie
Galbraith (book arts), University of the Arts.
2000 Multimedia
Faculty Search Committee, University of the Arts.
1998-2001 Chair, Curriculum Committee in
College of Media and Communication, designing all the curricula for all the new
majors in the college of "Communication & Media" and attending
various university wide committee as a representative of our committee,
University of the Arts.
2000-1 Committee on Tenure and
Promotion, University of the Arts.
1999-2000 Scheduling Director –prepared
department teaching schedules and coordinated our schedule with many other
departments and divisions at the university. , University of the Arts.
1999-2000 Budget Director – prepared the
yearly budget requests including researching past, current, and future needs
and special initiatives, University of the Arts.
1999-2000 Administrative duties for
Department of Multimedia including scheduling and coordinating retreats and
departmental student trips, attending Computer user committee meetings and
budget request forums, and scheduling departmental meetings (and all related
meetings), events, and other functions, University of the Arts.
1998-9 Faculty
Senate, Communication & Media Representative, University of the Arts.1998-9
EPC, Coordinating Curriculum Changes, University of the Arts.
1996-8 Morgan
Building Renovation sub-committee of Provost’s Classroom Committee, University
of Pennsylvania.
1996-8 Committee
to devise the details and course sequence of a new film minor, School of Arts
and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.
1996-8 Pop
Culture Seminar Committee, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania.
1995-6 Regan
Chair Search Committee, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania.
1995-6 Lecture
Series Coordinator, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania.
1995-6 Committee
creating a new minor or concentration in Film Studies, SAS, University of
Pennsylvania.
1995-6 Committee
for the "Computers & Creativity" lecture and performance series
in celebration of the anniversary of the invention of ENIAC, SAS, University of
Pennsylvania.
1996 Provost’s
Committee on Relocating Classrooms and Screening Facilities from Williams Hall
to another location, University of Pennsylvania.
1993-8 Provost’s
Classroom Committee, University of Pennsylvania.
1994-5 SAS
Review committee for the Annenberg School’s undergraduate major in
Communications, University of Pennsylvania.
1993-4 Co-collaborator
for planning "After Roland Barthes, An International Conference" with
Jean-Michel Rabaté and Nancy Shawcross, University of Pennsylvania.
1994 Faculty
Founder of Artist’s Books Collection in the Special Collections, Van Pelt
Library, University of Pennsylvania.
1993-4 Coordinating
Committee for the Speakers Series, "Trans-Cultural Cinema,"
Ethno-History Workshop, University of Pennsylvania.
1993-4 Electronic
Research and Communications Committee, English Department, University of
Pennsylvania.
1992-3 Coordinator
Inter-departmental Speaker Series, "Future of Film Studies,"
University of Pennsylvania.
1992-3 Coordinator
of the Cultural Studies Curriculum, University of Pennsylvania.
1993-4 Faculty
Senate Executive Committee, University of Pennsylvania.
1993-4 University
Council, University of Pennsylvania.
1991-3 Consultant,
Registrar’s Committee, Classroom Design, University of Pennsylvania.
1991-2 Graduate
Admissions Committee, Dept. of English, University of Pennsylvania.
1991-8 Department
of English, Designed Undergraduate Film Studies Concentration, University of
Pennsylvania.
2007 Judge,
Book
Arts Competition, sponsored by the Special Collections
Department at the University of Central Florida Libraries
2006 Judge,
Book
Arts Competition, sponsored by the Special Collections
Department at the University of Central Florida Libraries
2005 Judge,
Book
Arts Competition, sponsored by the Special Collections
Department at the University of Central Florida Libraries
2004/5 Selection
Judge, Florida Film Festival (documentary selection)
2004 Judge,
Student Film Competition for the Frankenstein
celebration, University of Central
Florida.
1998 Judge,
Barbara Blondeau Award in Film and Photography, University of the Arts.
1998 Selection
Judge, Black Maria Film Festival.
2008-09 Curatorial
Consultant, Pop-up Books and Book Machines Exhibit, Central Florida Art Gallery, opening in 2009.
2001 Curator,
Multimedia Gallery, Terra Building, University of the Arts.
1996-7 Curator,
"Networking Artists & Poets: Assemblings from The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive,"
Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt Library,
University of Pennsylvania (April 17- June 27, 1997).
1988-9 Co-curator,
"Brazilian Concrete & Visual Poetry from The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive," University of
Florida.
1988-9 Curator,
"Languages & Images: Concrete and Visual Poetry," Center Of Modern Art, Gainesville, Florida.
Staged in conjunction
with the "Brazilian Concrete & Visual Poetry" exhibit and celebration.